Germany, with its wealth and its manufacturing prowess, offered relatively high pay and comfortable working conditions.

Another hurdle is the nation's atomic enterprise itself, which has shrunk enormously in size and lost major parts of its manufacturing prowess.

Samsung, long seen as a low-end electronics maker, is now being courted by Sony for its manufacturing prowess and innovative technology.

He has also established a "global benchmarking" department in Detroit that monitors the technological and manufacturing prowess of competitors.

Still, despite China's manufacturing prowess, it is, for now, proving a lot harder than automakers here anticipated to make cars that appeal to Western tastes.

Fear and envy of German manufacturing prowess began a long time before, as any economic history will tell you.

Supercomputers, defined as the fastest computers available at any given time, have become an international symbol of superior manufacturing prowess and a vital modern military weapon.

For several decades, Intel had dominated the chip business by using its manufacturing prowess to create ever-faster processors.

The Harvard theory comes in two layers, one involving trade strategy and the other Japan's manufacturing prowess.

It was an arm of the Government's industrial policy, putting its job of fostering manufacturing prowess ahead of profits.